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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| f45ea3e | I was gawky and she was gorgeous and I was hopelessly boring and she was endlessly fascinating. So I walked back to my room and collapsed on the bottom bunk, thinking that if people were rain, I was drizzle and she was hurricane. | looking-for-alaska | John Green | |
| 1a2ec23 | And I closed my eyes because I wanted to know nothing but her arms. | Stephen Chbosky | ||
| 41907ae | The secret to life is to put yourself in the right lighting. For some, it's a Broadway spotlight; for others, a lamplit desk. Use your natural powers -- of persistence, concentration, and insight -- to do work you love and work that matters. Solve problems. make art, think deeply. | Susan Cain | ||
| 07b9c31 | There are chords in the hearts of the most reckless which cannot be touched without emotion. | Edgar Allan Poe | ||
| c398606 | You have not chosen one another, but I have chosen you for one another. | C.S. Lewis | ||
| 0010565 | And as He spoke, He no longer looked to them like a lion; but the things that began to happen after that were so great and beautiful that I cannot write them. And for us this the end of all the stories, and we can most truly say that they all lived happily ever after. But for them it was only the beginning of the real story. All their life in this world and all their adventures in Narnia had only been the cover and the title page: now at la.. | C.S. Lewis | ||
| de1c43b | Do you play football?' Brandon asks. 'No.' 'Baseball?' 'Nope.' Brandon is on a roll and won't stop until he's found the answer he's looking for. 'Tennis?' 'That would be a nada' 'Then what sport do you play?' Carlos puts down his food. Oh, no. He's got a rebellious gleam in his eye as he says, 'The horizontal tango.' ...Alex stands and says through chlenched teeth, 'Carlos let's talk. In private. Ahora.' ....Brandon turns to my dad.. | Simone Elkeles | ||
| cc63372 | Ah, good conversation - there's nothing like it, is there? The air of ideas is the only air worth breathing. | Edith Wharton | ||
| 7508500 | There was no way in hell she was going to move to the southern continent without all of her books. | Sarah J. Maas | ||
| 45e2ce7 | A friend had commented once that Neal had a gift for making someone want to punch him just for saying hello. | Tamora Pierce | ||
| 633565c | A woman needs a man like a fish needs a bicycle." I really hate this expression. I bet fish would totally want bicycles." | men-and-women | Meg Cabot | |
| 37c5ed6 | It's as if when you love someone, they become your reason. | David Levithan | ||
| b4cdcba | I have named you queen. There are taller than you, taller. There are purer than you, purer. There are lovelier than you, lovelier. But you are the queen. When you go through the streets No one recognizes you. No one sees your crystal crown, no one looks At the carpet of red gold That you tread as you pass, The nonexistent carpet. And when you appear All the rivers sound In my body, bells Shake the sky, And a hymn fills the world. Only you a.. | romance poetry | Pablo Neruda | |
| dc3251c | You musn't be afraid of the dark.' 'I'm not,' said Shadow. 'I'm afraid of the people in the dark. | Neil Gaiman | ||
| 18d2c01 | Ah! The strength of women comes from the fact that psychology cannot explain us. Men can be analyzed, women...merely adored. | Oscar Wilde | ||
| de74af6 | I believe there's a hand that guides us. It just isn't always a gentle one. Or one that seems fair at the time. But I dunno, I try to trust in it now. When I freak, I just try to... shit, I guess trust in it. Because at the end of the day, what else can you do? Choice only gets you so far. Reasoning and planning too. The rest... it's up to someone else. Where we end up, who we know, what happens to the people we love... we don't have a lot .. | jr-ward | J.R. Ward | |
| e01afa1 | If it wasn't for the mist we could see your home across the bay," said Gatsby. "You always have a green light that burns at the end of your dock." Daisy put her arm through his abruptly but he seemed absorbed in what he had just said. Possibly it had occurred to him that the colossal significance of that light had now vanished forever. Compared to the great distance that had separated him from Daisy it had seemed very near to him, almost to.. | F. Scott Fitzgerald | ||
| c30d5e4 | Eragon asked. | fantasy dragons brightscales dragon-riders shurtugal saphira eragon | Christopher Paolini | |
| 08d69c6 | For you and for me the highest moment, the keenest joy, is not when our minds dominate but when we lose our minds, and you and I both lose it in the same way, through love. | Anais Nin | ||
| 936320c | The first time Calypso came to check on [Leo], it was to complain about the noise. "Smoke and fire," she said. "Clanging on metal all day long. You're scaring away the birds!" "Oh, no, not the birds!" | leo-valdez sarcasm | Rick Riordan | |
| 18064ae | I don't regret anything I've ever done in life, any choice that I've made. But I'm consumed with regret for the things I didn't do, the choices I didn't make, the things I didn't say. We spend so much time being afraid of failure, afraid of rejection. But regret is the thing we should fear most. Failure is an answer. Rejection is an answer. Regret is an eternal question you will never have the answer to. "What if..." "If only..." "I wonder .. | life inspirational | Trevor Noah | |
| 297d2d9 | You have to love dancing to stick to it. It gives you nothing back, no manuscripts to store away, no paintings to show on walls and maybe hang in museums, no poems to be printed and sold, nothing but that single fleeting moment when you feel alive | ballet dance inspirational merce-cunningham | Merce Cunningham | |
| e402a64 | I had been right, I was still right, I was always right. I had lived my life one way and I could just as well have lived it another. I had done this and I hadn't done that. I hadn't done this thing but I had done another. And so? | Albert Camus | ||
| ea78350 | Clutter and mess show us that life is being lived...Tidiness makes me think of held breath, of suspended animation... Perfectionism is a mean, frozen form of idealism, while messes are the artist's true friend. What people somehow forgot to mention when we were children was that we need to make messes in order to find out who we are and why we are here. | Anne Lamott | ||
| 0d64b0f | The secret to happiness...be satisfied and be grateful. | Mitch Albom | ||
| e342734 | Of course they needed to care. It was the meaning of everything. | Lois Lowry | ||
| 1b9ad4a | Apparently, a woman can only go so long without a sword between her hands. | celaena-sardothien innuendo sword | Sarah J. Maas | |
| 2b1397b | Divorce isn't such a tragedy. A tragedy's staying in an unhappy marriage, teaching your children the wrong things about love. Nobody ever died of divorce. | Jennifer Weiner | ||
| 83990f8 | Men are simpler than you imagine my sweet child. But what goes on in the twisted, tortuous minds of women would baffle anyone. | Daphne du Maurier | ||
| 690e5c4 | A man who has been through bitter experiences and travelled far enjoys even his sufferings after a time | Homer | ||
| 4eb5cc7 | In case you haven't noticed, as the result of a shamelessly rigged election in Florida, in which thousands of African Americans were arbitrarily disenfranchised, we now present ourselves to the rest of the world as proud, grinning, jut-jawed, pitiless war-lovers with appalling powerful weaponry - who stand unopposed. In case you haven't noticed, we are now as feared and hated all over the world as the Nazi's once were. And with good reason... | Kurt Vonnegut | ||
| 2be25b9 | In case you haven't noticed, as the result of a shamelessly rigged election in Florida, in which thousands of African Americans were arbitrarily disenfranchised, we now present ourselves to the rest of the world as proud, grinning, jut-jawed, pitiless war-lovers with appalling powerful weaponry - who stand unopposed. In case you haven't noticed, we are now as feared and hated all over the world as the Nazi's once were. And with good reason... | Kurt Vonnegut | ||
| 5b73fab | She has been to the compound before. She remembered this hallway. She knows about the initiation process. My mother was Dauntless. | women | Veronica Roth | |
| 5374b33 | I have your back. I didn't mean only when it's easy. All the time. | Veronica Roth | ||
| bbce618 | The trouble is you can shut your eyes but you can't shut your mind. | terry-pratchett philosophy wintersmith | Terry Pratchett | |
| 9a4e9d7 | It is not uncommon for people to spend their whole life waiting to start living. | spiritual inspirational | Eckhart Tolle | |
| 4256668 | The value of things is not the time they last, but the intensity with which they occur. That is why there are unforgettable moments and unique people! | inspirational | Fernando Pessoa | |
| db54ff2 | Life," said Marvin dolefully, "loathe it or ignore it, you can't like it. | inspirational | Douglas Adams | |
| 34cba22 | literature inspirational general | ???? ???????? | ||
| 6026335 | There are some things one remembers even though they may never have happened. | truth falsehood recollection memory | Harold Pinter | |
| e4354de | Death should take me while I am in the mood. | humor | Nathaniel Hawthorne | |
| c0cdcd9 | Tut, tut, child!" said the Duchess. "Everything's got a moral, if only you can find it." | Lewis Carroll | ||
| 50026e1 | Anything that works against you can also work for you once you understand the Principle of Reverse. | Maya Angelou | ||
| c897d00 | Nelly, I am Heathcliff - he's always, always in my mind - not as a pleasure, any more then I am always a pleasure to myself - but, as my own being. | passion love | Emily Brontë |